12 things to do in Boulder County today, June 9, 2016

Rebecca Makkai will speak about and sign her new book, "Music for Wartime," tonight at the Boulder Book Store. (Courtesy Photo)

Rebecca Makkai's first two novels, "The Borrower" and "The Hundred-Year House," have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now she returns with a collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. The stories in "Music for Wartime" range from a reality show producer manipulating two contestants into falling in love to a young boy's revelation about his father just after the fall of the Berlin wall, 7:30 p.m., Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder; $5; 303-447-2074.

"Moulin Rouge" Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastic underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan, 7 p.m., Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont; $5-$8; 303-651-8374.

"April and the Extraordinary World" Avril, a teenage girl, Darwin, her talking cat, Pops, her grandfather, and Julius, a young scoundrel and police informer, go off in search of Avril's parents, two of the missing scientists. The quartet will face many dangers and mysteries in this strange new Rigged World, 2 and 7 p.m,, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $4-$11; 303-444-7328.

"Rams" In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them— their sheep, 4:30 p.m., Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $4-$11; 303-444-7328.

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The Boulder alt-country band gives its EPs names such as Death and Resurrection, and its songs bear the mark of hard truths and sin. But the punk energy behind the playing, and the sense that it's all in good fun, make it OK to dance to a song like "Death." Full Story